Trypanosoma cruzi clonal diversity and the epidemiology of Chagas' disease

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 419-427

  Buscaglia, Carlos A ^a   Di Noia, Javier M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Clonality; Epidemiology; Trypanosoma cruzi; TSSA

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MUCIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXON; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITISM; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0038326937     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(03)00050-9     Document Type: Review

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